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The Board of Directors of Hollowell Dawkins Foundation, Inc. awarded grants totaling $732,016 to 64 local organizations in the fiscal year ending June 30, 2023. Grants awarded by the Hollowell Dawkins Foundation to date total $12,456,292.57. Recipients of this year’s grant awards are as follows: Bethlehem Farm, Carnegie Hall, CASA...

2023 Bennett Reunion Descendants and friends of JC “Jimmy” and Nora Myrtle Sawyers Bennett will gather together Saturday, July 29 at Hollowell Park, 186 Matthews Street, Lewisburg. Starting at 12 noon with eating at 1 p.m. Bring a covered dish, old family photos and come enjoy the day. For more...

Estep-Jones Family Reunion We will be having our annual family reunion on Saturday, July 15, 2023 at the Asbury Community Center Building at 1 p.m. Bring a covered dish and hope to see you all there.

U.S. Senator Shelley Moore Capito (R-WV), Ranking Member of the Senate Appropriations Subcommittee on Labor, Health and Human Services, Education, and Related Agencies, announced $300,000 in funding from the U.S. Department of Labor (DOL) for the West Virginia Community and Technical College System on behalf of New River Community and...

U.S. Senators Shelley Moore Capito (R-WV) and Maggie Hassan (D-NH) reintroduced the Improving Mental Health Access from the Emergency Department Act, legislation to improve the way patients receive care for mental illness in emergency departments. The bipartisan bill would establish a competitive grant program for emergency departments to adopt more...

A bee in flight, covered with pollen. Last month Greenbrier County lost an impressive talent many of us may not have realized we had. Mr. Paul Eddie Burdette of Lewisburg, who died on Apr. 2, was a brilliant photographer. A snowflake He specialized in macro photography, taking pictures of tiny...

Chesapeake & Ohio’s The Chessie, the Train that Was, but Never Was provides detailed imagery, specifications, and diagrams of each car and their purpose on board the never-operated luxury train. Originally to be named “Belle Island Dome,” this mid-train dome car survives and currently serves on CSX Transportation’s business train...

Monongahela National Forest staff plan to conduct prescribed burns on 1,251 acres in Pocahontas, Greenbrier, and Pendleton counties from March through June, weather permitting. The purposes of these treatments are to re-establish fire’s natural role in the forest ecosystem, improve forest health and wildlife habitat, and reduce the threat of...

Photo courtesy: www.fws.gov U.S. Senator Shelley Moore Capito (R-WV), Ranking Member of the Senate Environment and Public Works (EPW) Committee, as well as a member of the Senate Appropriations Committee, announced $564,939 from the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service (FWS) through the State Wildlife Grant (SWG) Program to support conservation...

Photo courtesy: www.congress.gov U.S. Senator Shelley Moore Capito (R-W.Va.), Senate Vice Chair of the National Service Congressional Caucus, recently released a resolution in celebration of AmeriCorps Week to honor the invaluable contributions of AmeriCorps members and alumni. “Just recently, I was proud to meet AmeriCorps volunteers at Grow Ohio Valley...